MIPModDB

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DescriptionSuperfamily of Major intrinsic proteins.
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Research center Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, INDIA
Laboratory Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering
AuthorsAnjali Bansal Gupta, Ravi Kumar Verma, Vatsal Agarwal, Manu Vajpai, Vivek Bansal, Ramasubbu Sankararamakrishnan
Primary citationGupta et al. (2012) [1]
Release date2011
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Website http://bioinfo.iitk.ac.in/MIPModDB

MIPModDB is a database of comparative protein structure models of MIP (Major intrinsic proteins) family of proteins. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gupta, Anjali Bansal; Verma Ravi Kumar; Agarwal Vatsal; Vajpai Manu; Bansal Vivek; Sankararamakrishnan Ramasubbu (Jan 2012). "MIPModDB: a central resource for the superfamily of major intrinsic proteins". Nucleic Acids Res. 40 (Database issue). England: D362-9. doi:10.1093/nar/gkr914. PMC   3245135 . PMID   22080560.